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What's wrong with any similarity with that? After all Surya Kiran means Sun's Rays..what else would their livery have? Crescent moon instead?

The Tejas Mk1A is generations ahead of the Su-25 in every way except for taking hits and surviving. Armenia has 4 X Su-30s as you pointed out, but they're trained by the Russians, with very limited exposure to any other air force. Even if they purchase Astra Mk1 missiles which are superior the...

The thing about Armenia is that they don't have a fighter culture in their air force. It is very small, training is definitely an issue and for any fighter to be effective, they'll need a lot of training, exercises, and time. If the GoI decides that it definitely wants to help Armenia build a...

If that's the case why is the KAI T-50 and FA-50 selling so well? They're using F-404 engines on them as well. The US simply had a veto on the F-16 sale and needed to give permission for it - the actual sale came from Denmark which wanted to offload these F-16s for F-35s. There was a very real...

What is the specific Air Force requirement that the Mk1A cannot fulfil?

Ok, so we agree on the Typhoon. It would've taken some time for India to develop the non British part replacements and test and certify them for Argentina. But it was possible and in fact most are being replaced on the Tejas Mk2 as we speak. For e.g. the radome and the refueling probe. The...

Not at all. It established the fact that dependency on a country like the UK for parts should be avoided as far as possible for Tejas Mk2, TEDBF and AMCA. Next program there'll be no Cobham parts and only the Martin Baker seat will be of British origin. It also established the fact that HAL...

Where are moderators on this forum?! Idiots because they offered a jet for export?!? What rubbish language is this? People criticize them for not being able to export and here you're criticizing them for really trying hard?! We are not dying to replace the Bisons..if we were the IAF wouldn't...

Good news for Argentina in that at least it's fast jet capability has returned with the signing of the deal with Denmark for 24 F-16 A/Bs updated to MLU standards. Price is very reasonable but these are old F-16s and may not last longer than a decade. So Argentina is no longer a possible Tejas...

Because of several factors. The 8 Tejas trainers that were originally on contract were to be built to the FOC standard, since that was the final standard for the Tejas Mk1. At the time that the Tejas trainers Standard Of Preparation (SOP) was being finalized 4 years ago, there was no Elta 2052...

Are you unaware of how things work in the real world? The previous tender was at 2021 prices for all the parts/assemblies/labor that goes into a Tejas Mk1A. Do they stay the same in your world 3 years later too? In addition, there may be some new requirements that the IAF has with these 97...

Some more info from Janes. The tender was released by MoD to HAL in March 2024 and the value of the acquisition could change. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/india-issues-tender-for-97-additional-tejas-mk-1as

This won't take as much time given it is a follow on order for the Tejas Mk1A with precedent having been set and benchmark prices from the first contract.

Champagne bottle kholo! The IAF has issued the tender for 97 more Tejas Mk1A. HAL has to respond within 3 months. Defence Ministry issues Rs 65,000 crore tender to HAL for buying 97 LCA Mk1A fighter jets

No it isn't. In most cases sorties carried out by the squadron will last for 30-45 minutes. For those sorties, the center drop tank or 2 inboard drop tanks are sufficient.

Excellent! Dispersed basing is going to be a very important capability if there ever was a real war breaking out since airfields will be under constant attack by cruise and ballistic missiles.

Have you considered the weight of the ASPJ pod versus the structural load rating of the outermost hardpoint?

Hardly anything major. the IAF has asked for the changes, they'll be fine with the timelines associated with making those changes. No one else needs to worry.

Slovaks didn't get to choose whether the F-16V had a pitot probe or not. That is the STANDARD configuration on ALL F-16Vs. Which makes it obvious that if it were that big of a deal and leading to that much signal loss or interference, it would've been removed as it was on F-16 Blk 60 for the...

Airflow increased to aid in pressure recovery during slow speeds. Adopted from the Naval LCA.